Thomas Jefferson May Have Been a Flawed Man, but his Descendant, Lucian K. Truscott IV, Never Learned the Value of the Teachable Moment

Editor in Chief, DL Mullan
Thomas Jefferson / History / Memorial
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Thomas Jefferson like many people from our past were caught up in a whirlwind of circumstances they did not know how to get out of and no matter what they did, could not control. Instead of realizing the pressure people were under during their eras, modern views are to dissect, destroy, and delete the past based on value judgements of today.

The past is to learn from. It is our history and our disagreements with the people, places, or ideals of that history should make us better people. The past is the present's teachable moment. 

Thomas Jefferson was a man, an imperfect man, whose ideals were overshadowed by the gravity of his time. Instead of holding him to that higher standard, it was he who tasked us in the present to fulfill his idealism. He knew that he was trapped by the time he lived in. 

What possible understanding do you, Lucian K. Truscott IV, have about living in such a time as he? None.

Have you ever considered that if Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves without financial support, an education, or political will at their backs that his slaves would have been worse off, even murdered? Of course not, because we have never had to make those types of decisions. 

To tear down statutes in anger or ignorance is nothing more than juvenile tantrums of an ill-informed lynch mob mentality. What is the difference in owning slaves when you are in the modern era a slave to the rage mob? Thomas Jefferson was just as much a slave to his generation as he was a slave owner. The lynch mobs in our streets are mental slaves to organizations telling them that they are the modern slave owners trying to whip the populace into conformity.

I am against any form of modern ineptness denigrating our historical figures because most of the outcry is hype. 

Thomas Jefferson did write: “all men are created equal,” but we forget to comprehend that it is our responsibility to pursue it. That ideal was not his to give. He said it was endowed to us by our creator and we are our creator. We created our past. We create our present. We create our future. 

He provided the outline. America has spent the last 244 years crawling our way up to behold that sentiment in mind and spirit. If we have not fully achieved his realization for America, then how can we be in the position to judge him by it? 

What ignorance you wrote that really caught my attention was: "A tour of Monticello these days will tell you that it was designed by Jefferson and built by the people he enslaved..."

Not everyone in your family's employ was a slave who worked at Monticello, my family did as well: 

Richard Sorrels
(5th Great Grandfather)
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Richard Sorrells was a general laborer at Monticello. He worked for Thomas Jefferson from 1769 until his death in 1773.

I have noted on my 1776 Patriot Project page. 

If you also read down the list, I have a Confederate in my past too, but unlike you I don't make the past about personal feelings of guilt or shame. I am not an ungrateful person. I view history in the context it was meant to be encapsulated: frozen, studied, and understood. 

The points in the past are the growth spurts and sputterings of a grand experiment in self-governance. Your op-ed proves America still has miles to go to fulfill our own Declaration of Independence because you judge the past with a Post Modernist flare of deconstruction. 

I view our Declaration of Independence as a challenge to be meet every moment of every day. 

That is the difference between you and I. You are caught up in the embarrassment of what you cannot change. I am using challenging times as a teachable moment. 

The Thomas Jefferson and the other historical monuments must stay. Otherwise we too are as guilty as those who preceded us. I shall not live in such regretful recompense for something I am not responsible for, but evermore hope to teach that every day we can be the betterment of ourselves and others.

Be your better self and end this foolishness. 

Source: NY Times,

The Freeing of Slaves is Already a Paid National Holiday

Editor in Chief, DL Mullan 
Emancipation Proclamation / National Holiday
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Politicians are clamoring for your votes. It is an election year and it is time to make racism a focal point. So Juneteenth has come to the forefront of that racism discussion and a national holiday is being promoted.

What the politicians will not tell you... is that the freeing of slaves is already a paid federal holiday. 

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

Juneteenth is a product of the Emancipation Proclamation and therefore is a secondary celebration, not the main one. Cities and states who wish to celebrate it can. That is why we have freedom in the United States.

But there are media outlets that cast doubt on Lincoln's merits like Time:

There is a common misconception among Americans that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with a stroke of his pen. Yet the Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, did no such thing — or, at least, it didn't do a very good job of it. Two and a half years later, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, Texas, announced the end of the Civil War, and read aloud a general order freeing the quarter-million slaves residing in the state. It's likely that none of them had any idea that they had actually been freed more than two years before. It was truly a day of mass emancipation. It has become known as Juneteenth.

Media forgets that without the Emancipation Proclamation to begin with there would have been no legal authority to free slaves anywhere in the United States including Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865.

So yes, Lincoln made that possible. The proclamation created that legal road map. It is propaganda like Time's website that creates the misperception of American history and legal documents.

As the proclamation was made enforcable as of January 1, that is a national, federally paid, holiday being that the day is New Years.

Why are we being blackmailed into a new national holiday again?

To show black people politicians care when they do not care to clean up Detroit, Chicago or anywhere else black homicides are at record highs due to bad education, nonexistent employment, and societal neglect.

Sources: History 1, History 2, Federal Pay, Time

Why are Taxpayers Funding Racism in Colleges?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Racism / White Privilege

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Why are federal and state monies going to fund higher learning institutions creating, supporting, and promoting racism?

Racist professor recorded teaching anti-white curriculum

Are you a victim because someone says you are? 

Wouldn't the fact that people of color being the President of the United States, Supreme Court Justices, members of Congress, let alone professors and students disprove institutional racism?

So why are colleges and universities allowed to keep pushing propaganda to harm the growth and experience of their students?

Source: Youtube

Removing Confederate Statues is Revisionist History

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Slavery / Civil War
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Listen to A Black Conservative Tell You Why Removing Confederate Statues is Revisionist History

New Orleans has removed the first of a few Confederate statues in response to criticism that the statutes are symbols of white supremacy, racism, and hatred. Opponents of the statues also say they glorify the ugly history of slavery in the United States. Workers who were tasked with the job of removing the monuments and statues had to wear bulletproof vests while being protected by police snipers as they worked at night. This was said to be a precautionary measure for their safety, but it could also be seen as a PR move to justify the removal of the structures. Some people are upset about this whole situation and the bulletproof vests may be worn to try and paint the upset people as also being violent white supremacists that would shoot someone trying to remove something they deeply identify with.

All of this screams “revisionist history.” Marxism, more specifically. To attempt to change the written history into something else more palatable to those who are either in power or those who want to assume power. The Confederate (battle) flag has often been cited in conjunction with the statues of Robert E. Lee and others as symbols of racism for a few reasons. Many of the reasons are not totally sound and could be used for the other side of the war as well. But due to prior Marxist revisionism, it appears as if only one side is mentioned in a negative way.

Robert E. Lee is said to have been a slave owner but so was General Ulysseus S. Grant, the leader of the Union Army. Nobody wants to desecrate any of his monuments. The Confederacy was said to be fighting for the preservation of slavery, but the North had slaves throughout the entire war and for a brief period of time after the war, longer than the South was allowed to keep their slaves. The Confederate flag is seen as a symbol of racism but it only existed for 4 years of slavery, while the American flag existed for around 90 years of slavery and the Union Jack existed for about 150 years of slavery before that (in North America of course.) Many of these facts are not known by the general public and more facts will continue to go unknown if the current trend of revisionist history continues. And those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

Source: Anthony Brian Logan

Don’t Call It A Conquest

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman

History / Vatican 
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Don’t Call It A Conquest: How Columbus, 

the Catholic Church & US Courts Destroyed Native Americans

How Native Americans have been destroyed by Columbus, Catholic Church doctrine, and the courts of the United States is explained by Pagans in the Promised Land author, Steven Newcomb. We look at the religious framework for the European land grab and blood bath that devastated native peoples, and the court justification based on clear European and religious supremacy. How American Indians lost their land, and who really benefits from modern Indian Casinos and gaming, as well as how Genesis 1:28 has been used as a justification of mass extermination is revealed in this Buzzsaw interview, hosted by Sean Stone.

Source: Buzzsaw

Movie Night: Your Federal Taxes go to the Crown

Staff Writer, DB Holmes
Taxes / History 
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Your Federal Taxes go to the Crown

Think you know your history and where your taxes go? Think again. This discussion cites law and history as proof.

Welcome to the Plantation.

Source: Stop the Pirates

Supplemental: 1984: Grace Commission Report Show IRS is a Fraud

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman
Taxes / Fraud 
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1984: Grace Commission Report 

This report was done under Ronald Reagan and showed the IRS is a fraud that collects taxes for the Banking Dynasties.

Ronald Reagan was promptly shot after he dared to criticize the Fed, on the same day that the Pope was shot. After recovering, he changed his mind and praised the Fed. About seven US Presidents have been assassinated for not cooperating with the Transatlantic Banking Dynasties (William Henry Harrison, poisoned, in 1841, Zachary Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and John F. Kennedy 1963; 7 if FDR's poisoning is counted). Most of us feel sick when we realize that “Not one dime of IRS money goes to the US Gov't”, according to Reagan's Grace Commission: it all goes to pay interest on a bogus debt to the Private Federal Reserve (FED), just to allow paper money to circulate as "Federal Reserve Notes". The Federal Reserve is a private Corporation eventually owned by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds Dynasties through intermediary agents, designed to suck the capital dry from the U.S., as the Rothschilds do in Europe.

Read Billions for the http://www.deepinfo.com/email/Billions4Bankers.htm Bankers, Debts for the People

More Links at DeepInfo.com on Jekyll Island http://www.deepinfo.com/more/jekyll.htm .

Source: Internet Archive

How the US Is Fueling World Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

Government / News
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How the US Is Fueling World Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery

The increasing problem of human trafficking around the globe is examined by Deborah Sigmund – president and founder of the nonprofit child advocacy organization Innocents at Risk.

Sigmund says the main goal of her organization is to educate the public – and particularly people in America – about the widespread problem of human trafficking, and provide avenues for them to join the fight against it.

“There are over 27 million women, children and men who are in slavery today. Each year, over 18,000 foreign nationals are trafficked within the United States.”

She adds that within the U.S. borders, there are 200,000 children who end up in the sex trade each year, in what is now “the fastest growing criminal industry in the world” – second only to drug trafficking.

“The average age of a child who is trafficked is 12 – but they certainly take younger ones as well, and that’s what’s so terribly heartbreaking.”

Sigmund addresses the issue that the problem of human trafficking is typically viewed by Americans as being a issue in other countries, rather than right at home.

“It certainly happens here… and these are not just runaway children. Girls are lured online, and girls from good families – they can be kidnapped from a mall, it is just horrendous.

She brings up the Liam Neeson movie Taken – which is based on a true story – that was very instrumental in educating the public that human trafficking was a reality that could happen to anyone.

Sigmund said the profiles of children who end up falling victim to the sex trade are varied, although many escape lives spent in the U.S. welfare system, or troubled family situations at home.

“There are systems out there and there are people who can help,” she said about the resources that her organization helps to promote.

The hotline for the National Human Trafficking Resource Center – where people should call to report suspicious activities and behavior that might indicate that an individual is being held against their will and possibly a victim of human trafficking – 1-888-373-7888.

Source: Buzzsaw